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Society and Information Technology in Second Life
Wednesdays, January 9 - July 30, 2008, 4-6, SLT/PT, 7-9 pm ET
on Berkman island in Second Life - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/114/70/25
Course homepage - http://socinfotech.pbwiki.com
Instructor: Scott MacLeod (not on Harvard's faculty) = Aphilo Aarde (in Second Life)
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm
Welcome to the 'Society and Information Technology' in Second Life course web site, a course about how the Network Society has developed, vis-à-vis long-time Berkeley and USC Professor Manuel Castells' research on the Information Technology revolution. In this course, we'll examine how the Information Technology revolution represents a paradigm shift, as significant as previous industrial revolutions, from an empirically grounded analysis of the present. The argument for this course is that information generation / processing is the driver of change in society. The information revolution in the Internet Age comes from people producing their information and exchanging it over the net, from the double logic of identities and networks.
This virtual course is 'placeless.' Lectures and discussions will take place only in the Meeting Area on Berkman island in the virtual world of Second Life.
*Class in Second Life (how to get 'there,' etc.)
Getting Started in Second Life - Watch this video tutorial.
Create a Second Life avatar. Sign up for a Second Life Basic Membership (FREE) and download the software (FREE). You can sign up here. You can download the software here. There is no need to pay for anything at any point in the process.
Class participants may add to this wiki to shape the course together.
* Society and Information Technology MacLeod Course Video Lectures
Syllabus
(this syllabus will develop)
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Week 1 - Information Technology and Society: Introduction
In this class we'll discuss some key issues in how the Network Society developed, and get acquainted with an overview of this course in Second Life. In this class we'll first consider five main aspects of information technology-related cultural change, which provide ways to analyze this information technology paradigm shift. We'll begin by contextualizing the Network Society in relation to these 5 characteristics, as we explore main themes in this course. And, we'll also examine Second Life itself, to see how to get around in it and learn about it, vis-a-vis the Network Society.
Reading and Media:
Trebor Scholz's history of the social web: "How the Social Web Came to Be" - http://www.damienlanfrey.net/test/
Soc Info Tech Class Transcript Jan 9 2008
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Week 2 - The Information Technology Revolution: History, Geography, Actors
In this class, we'll continue to discuss how the three main bases of the Information Technology Revolution, as well as begin to look at a history of the Internet.
Reading and Media:
Jan 16 2008 Soc and Info Tech course transcript
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Week 3 - Social History of the Internet
In this class, we'll examine the beginning of the Information Technology revolution, focusing the origins of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.
Reading and Media:
Trebor Scholz's History of the Social Web "How the Social Web Came to Be" - http://www.damienlanfrey.net/test/
Jan 23 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 4 - Social History of the Internet (continued)
In this class, we'll look at ways in which the Information Technology revolution changes production.
Reading and Media:
Jan 30 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 5 - History of the Internet - 1950s and 1960s
In this class, we'll examine specifically the history of the Internet, emerging from the development of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.
Reading and Media:
Feb 6 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 6 - History of the Internet - 1970s and 1980s
TCP / IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, the personal computer
Feb 13 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 7 - History of the Internet - 1990s to the present
Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web; Browsers; Cultures of the Internet: Technomeritocractic, Hacker, Communitarian, Entrepreneurial
Feb 20 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 8 - The Informational City: Information Technology and Spatial Transformation
Feb 27 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 9 - Envisioning the digital future - Ray Kurzweil's visions Mar 05 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 10 - Avatar Agency, and the city and spatial transformation vis-a-vis the Information Technology Revolution - multi-modal cities
Mar 12 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 11 - The Informational City: Information Technology and Spatial Transformation (cont.) - Core edge cities
Mar 19 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 12 - Information technology, International relations, Warfare, and Noopolitik
Mar 26 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 13 - Information technology, International relations, Warfare, and Noopolitik (cont.)
April 2 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 14 - The New World Disorder: Identity
April 9 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
Stanford Professor Ramesh Johari - The Future of the Internet
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Week 15 - Identity (cont.), and Challenges Ahead for the Future of the Internet and the Network Society
April 16 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 16 - Digital Divide (Inequality)
Apr 23 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 17 - Digital Divide (cont.), and Anthropology of Virtual Worlds
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Week 18 - Digital Divide (cont.) and Internet Statistics
May 7 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 19 - Digital Divide (cont.)
May 14 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 20 - The Future of the Internet & Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society's 10th anniversary conference
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Week 21
- Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society's 10th Anniversary
-The Future of the Internet - Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player
May 28 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 22
- Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (2)
June 4 2008 Soc and Info Tech course transcript
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Week 23
-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (3)
- Structuring a global, open university
June 11 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 24
-Envisioning a global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (4)
- Funding and virtual worlds of a global, open university
June 18 2008 Soc and Info Tech course transcript
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Week 25
-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (5)
June 25 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 26
-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (6)
July 2 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 27
-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)
July 9 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 28
-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)
July 16 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 29
-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)
July 23 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 30
-Envisioning a Global, degree-granting, free, open, virtual-world University, with Harvard as a key player (7)
July 30 2008 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Podcast Instructions
History of Courses on Berkman Island in Second Life
History of Courses on Berkman island in Second Life
Bibliographical and Media Resources
Bibliographic and Media Resources
Society and Information Technology in Second Life
Wednesdays, August 29 - December 12 , 2007, 4-6, SLT/PT, 7-9 pm ET
on Berkman island in Second Life - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/114/70/25
Instructor: Scott MacLeod (not on Harvard's faculty) = Aphilo Aarde (in Second Life)
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm
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Week 1 - Information Technology and Society: Introduction
In this class we'll discuss some key issues in how the Network Society developed, and get acquainted with an overview of this course in Second Life. In this class we'll first consider five main aspects of information technology-related cultural change, which provide ways to analyze this information technology paradigm shift. We'll begin by contextualizing the Network Society in relation to these 5 characteristics, as we explore main themes in this course. And, we'll also examine Second Life itself, to see how to get around in it and learn about it, vis-a-vis the Network Society.
Reading and Media:
Homework:
Aug 29 07 Soc Info Tech in SL transcript
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Week 2 - The Information Technology Revolution: History, Geography, Actors
In this class, we'll continue to discuss how the three main bases of the Information Technology Revolution, as well as begin to look at a history of the Internet.
Reading and Media:
Castells, Manuel. "The Rise of the Network Society,” 2 nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, chapter 1: "The Information Technology Revolution,” pp. 28- 76. (P. 15 in Reader).
MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 1 The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography. Google Video (43 mins.):
Homework:
TBA
Sep 5 07 Soc and Info Tech in SL transcript
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Week 3 - Social History of the Internet
In this class, we'll examine the beginning of the Information Technology revolution, focusing the origins of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.
Reading and Media:
Abbate, Janet. "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages 1-6, 44-81.
MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 2 Social History of the Internet. Google Video (32 mins.):
MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 3 The Information Revolution and Social Transformations. Posted online: June 24, 2007. Google Video (18 mins.):
Homework:
TBA
Sep 12 2007 Soc and Info Tech class in SL transcript
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Week 4 - Social History of the Internet (continued)
In this class, we'll look at ways in which the Information Technology revolution changes production.
Reading and Media:
MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.):
Homework:
TBA
Sep 19 2007 Soc and Info Tech in SL class transcript
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Week 5 - History of the Internet - 1950s and 1960s
In this class, we'll examine specifically the history of the Internet, emerging from the development of microelectronics, computing, and telecommunications.
Reading and Media:
Abbate, Janet. "Inventing the Internet,” Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, pages 181-220.
MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 4 Internet History. June 29, 2007. Google Video (48 mins.):
Homework:
TBA
Sep 26 2007 Soc and Info Tech in SL class transcript
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Week 6 - History of the Internet - 1970s and 1980s
TCP / IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, the personal computer
Oct 3 2007 Soc and Info Tech in SL class transcript
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Week 7 - History of the Internet - 1990s to the present
Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web; Browsers; Cultures of the Internet: Technomeritocractic, Hacker, Communitarian, Entrepreneurial
Oct 10 2007 Soc and Info Tech course transcript
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Week 8 - Participated in Harvard Professor Charles Nesson's Burning Man Mock Trial in Second Life
This transcript includes the jury's deliberation:
Oct 17 2007 Burning Man Mock Trial
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Week 9 - Virtual Communities; The New Media and the Culture of Real Virtuality; Virtual Worlds: Second Life
Oct 23 07 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 10 - Sociability, the Internet and Empirical Data in the mid-late 1990s: Communities and Individualization, Social Movements
MacLeod, Scott. 2007. 5 Sociability, the Internet and Empirical Data in the mid-late 1990s: Communities and Individualization. July 3, 2007. Google Video (32 mins.):
Oct 31 07 Soc and Info Tech class transcript
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Week 11 - Social Movements (cont.); The New Economy: Technology and Productivity, Globalization of Finance
Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
Nov 6 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript
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Week 12 - The New Economy: Technology and Productivity, Globalization of Finance (cont.)
Nov 14 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript
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Week 13 - Globalization of Finance (cont.)
Nov 21 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript
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Week 14
- Globalization of Finance (cont.) - The New World Disorder: War and Peace in the Age of the Internet
Nov 28 2007 Soc and Info Tech Class Transcript
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Week 15 - Informational Politics and the Network State
Dec 5 07 Soc & Info Tech Class Transcription
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Week 16 - Last class
- Informational Politics and the Network State (cont.)
- The Future of the Internet and the Network Society
Dec 12 07 Soc & Info Tech Class Transcription
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